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What’s new: The war risk insurance company for Norwegian ships is providing incentives for its customers to use Iridium A-PNT as a way of mitigating jamming and spoofing.
Why it’s important:
- Insurance company concerns can often be as or more effective at causing an industry to do something than government mandates.
- Other insurance concerns may decide to enact similar policies, or even require non-GNSS systems at some point.
What else to know:
- This is a fairly limited use case as it is only for war-risk, Norwegian vessels, and involves the vessel getting the equipment and subscription in order to get the discount.
- We hope the entire insurance industry across all sectors will become interested and involved in PNT resilience.
- Saudi Arabia’s eLoran system serves the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandab Strait. We have heard talk of one or more of those signals being used in a similar way.
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Electronic signal interference is increasingly disrupting global navigation systems. GNSS jamming and spoofing incidents are rising across multiple maritime regions, putting vessel safety and operational integrity at risk.
